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August 7, 2024

WMSE's local and live in-studio showcase, Local/Live, airs Tuesdays 6-7 p.m. You can find past episodes HERE, or on this handy Soundcloud playlist. milwaukeerecord · WMSE's Local/Live, August 6, 2024: Mike...

Summerfest announces 2025 dates, will stick to three-weekend format

August 7, 2024

Attention folks hoping that Summerfest's delay in announcing its 2025 dates may indicate a return to the festival's old 11-day format: sorry! On Wednesday, the producer of Summerfest, Milwaukee World Festiva...

Be charmed, dammit: A philosophical guide to exploring the Oak Leaf Trail

Annie Raab

August 6, 2024

broadstreet.zone(156201); Summer is the best. Join Milwaukee Record and Miller High Life August 5-12 as we search the city and beyond for the Spirit Of Summer. Driving makes me disenchanted. Listen: I need ...

Here’s who’s playing the X-Ray Arcade Stage at Bay View Bash

August 6, 2024

While many of Milwaukee’s summer festivals, block parties, and other large scale happenings have already come and gone, one of the city’s best fests is still on the horizon. Bay View Bash will return to Kinnick...

Silver City Fest returns September 7

August 6, 2024

Since its start in 2012, Silver City Fest (formerly known as "Silver City International Festival") has celebrated the numerous cultures that help make Silver City the most diverse neighborhood in Milwaukee thro...

WMSE’s Friday Night Freak Show moving to Oriental Theatre, will screen ‘Reservoir Dogs’ September 20

August 6, 2024

From 1997 until 2006, and again from 2016 until early 2024, WMSE's Friday Night Freak Show delivered a monthly cult film screening to the Times Cinema. But now, beginning with a Friday, September 20 screening o...

Tom’s Burned Down Cafe is an island bar unlike any other

August 5, 2024

broadstreet.zone(156201); Summer is the best. Join Milwaukee Record and Miller High Life August 5-12 as we search the city and beyond for the Spirit Of Summer. Way up in Ashland County, pretty much at the t...

Start your day in the Dells with Mr. Pancake

August 5, 2024

broadstreet.zone(156201); Summer is the best. Join Milwaukee Record and Miller High Life August 5-12 as we search the city and beyond for the Spirit Of Summer. Wisconsin Dells is a state of mind. Spend t...

Get in the ring and watch Immortal Girlfriend’s “Calling” music video

August 5, 2024

Back in February, Immortal Girlfriend—a.k.a. the "Dark Knights of Synth"—continued its streak of outstanding output with the surprise release of Sojourner. Arguably the best track on the altogether commendable ...

ALERT: Halloween stuff is popping up at CVS

August 5, 2024

Let it be known that with 47 days left in summer, and with 87 days remaining until Halloween, Halloween stuff is popping up at Milwaukee CVS locations. We spotted a dollop of said stuff at our neighborhood CVS ...

Enjoy Every Fish Fry: Swiss Street Pub & Grille in Franklin has meaty perch, may be haunted

Caleb Westphal

August 2, 2024

broadstreet.zone(156201); Caleb Westphal hasn't missed a Friday fish fry since 2013. Follow his never-ending adventures—sponsored by Miller High Life—HERE. This week, fish fry #552: Swiss Street Pub & Gril...

We ate/drank all of Wisconsin State Fair’s 2024 Sporkies and Drinkies finalists

August 2, 2024

From August 1-11, the Wisconsin State Fair is once again offering up oodles of entertainment, oodles of animals, oodles of questionable T-shirts, rides for folks of all ages, and much more. Oh, and food! In add...

Milwaukee Record Cat Of The Week: Bosco Stick

August 2, 2024

Milwaukee Record is working in partnership with Urban Cat Coalition—a local organization that’s dedicated to creating a no kill community by humanely reducing the cat population in the Milwaukee area through ta...

Welcome to August: Here’s what you’re doing this month

August 1, 2024

Though it feels like summer just started, we’ve now entered the last full month of the season. Summer isn’t going out with a whimper, though. Quite the opposite. Since this looks to be an active August, Milwauk...

Celebrate the first day of the 2024 Wisconsin State Fair with 14 years of ride-inspection news stories

August 1, 2024

Today marks the glorious first day of the 2024 Wisconsin State Fair. From August 1-11, hundreds of thousands of proud Wisconsinites will flock to the State Fair Grounds in West Allis to take in all the sights, ...

Third Space is brewing a “Bash Beer” for this year’s Bay View Bash

July 31, 2024

While many of Milwaukee's summer festivals, block parties, and other large scale happenings have already come and gone, one of the city's best fests is still on the horizon. Bay View Bash will return to Kinnick...

Here’s the TosaFest 2024 lineup

July 31, 2024

TosaFest, an annual event—which started way back in 1976!—will take place for yet another year when it returns to the streets of the Wauwatosa Village on Friday, September 6 and Saturday, September 7. Now that ...

Mille’s Italian Sausage family will leave Wisconsin State Fair after 2024

July 31, 2024

The Wisconsin State Fair is a Fair of icons. Think the Original Cream Puffs, the Milk House, the Giant Slide, and anything and everything deep-fried and on-a-stick. But the 2024 Wisconsin State Fair (August 1-1...

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